Preventing Goals

Goals where the objective is to prevent a completion of another goal.

This pattern is a still a stub.

Examples

Example: The goal of the goalkeeper in Soccer is to prevent the opposing team's players from score goals.

Example: The goal in Backgammon is to move each individual piece to the inner table and one can prevent the other player from achieving this in two ways: by hitting the opponent's piece when moving one's own pieces or by blocking the piece by placing two or more pieces on area of the game board. The first case directly affects the opponent's piece as it interferes with the game state (the position of the piece) defining the opponent's goal. The second case indirectly prevents the goal as it does not affect the piece but may block future moves of the piece.

Left 4 Dead series

Relations

Time Limits Challenging Gameplay Algorithmic Agents Non-Player Characters Enemies Multiplayer Games Alignment Loyalty Ephemeral Goals Capture Combat Stealth Reconnaissance Rescue Evade Guard Herd Excluding Goals Eliminate Game State Overviews

Instantiates: Continuous Goals, Conflict, Interferable Goals, Incompatible Goals, Asymmetric Goals, Excluding Goals, Limited Planning Ability

Modulates: Negotiation

Instantiated by: Construction, Perfect Information, Enemies, Player Defined Goals, Capture, Evade, Conceal, Survive, Eliminate

Modulated by: Time Limits, Game State Overview

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History

An updated version of the pattern Preventing Goals that was part of the original collection in the book Patterns in Game Design.

Acknowledgements

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